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WEAVE

Sociable weaverPhiletairus socius

Cooperative fabrication and assembly by teams of simple agents.

(01) — Dossier

Kingdom
SWARM — The Collective Kingdom

Distributed machines · collective intelligence · resilient coordination

Readiness

○ Research

Higher-risk program; key advantages remain experimental. A MALIA planning category, not a formal TRL.

Status

Proposed concept

WEAVE is under study — it is not manufactured, fielded or validated.

(02) — Biological principle

Colonies cooperating to build structures outliving their builders.

What the organism solved.

(03) — Engineering ambition

Cooperative fabrication and assembly by teams of simple agents.

The machine it points toward — an ambition, not a promise.

(04) — Research questions

  1. Q01

    What produces the effect — colonies cooperating to build structures outliving their builders — and which part of the mechanism is essential rather than incidental to the biology?

  2. Q02

    What is the simplest machine that could deliver cooperative fabrication and assembly by teams of simple agents without replicating the organism wholesale?

  3. Q03

    What evidence would falsify the approach — under which conditions is WEAVE worse than the conventional alternative, and how early could that be shown?

Programs begin as questions, not specifications. GENOME indexes the biological mechanism; INSTINCT tests what survives the move into a machine.

(05) — Related species

Also in SWARM.

9 other programs in the SWARM kingdom.